changeable
adj/ˈt͡ʃeɪn.d͡ʒə.bəl/
Etymology From Middle English chaungeable, from Old Northern French chaungeable, from Late Latin cambiāre (“to change”), equivalent to change + -able.
1
Capable of being changed.
2
Subject to sudden or frequent changes.
- The weather is very changeable today: we've had bright sunshine, clouds, wind and rain in the same half-hour.
- There will be no problems with visibility, or the highly changeable Highland weather, as Scotland basks in what is reported to be the country's hottest September day for more than a century.2021 October 20, Paul Stephen, “Leisure and Pleasure on the Far North Line”, in RAIL, number 942, page 48:
3
Of a species Capable of camouflaging itself by changing colour.
- Synonyms
- changeable, changeful, changeling, dynamic, everchanging, fickle, fluid, inconstant, labile, mobile, moody, shiftable, up-and-down, unstable, variable, volatile, wavering
- Antonyms
- changeless
- Derived terms
- changeability, changeable hawk-eagle, changeable lizard, changeableness, changeably, nonchangeable, unchangeable
- Hypernyms
- mutable